Posts Tagged ‘nutrients’

*+-My family celebrated Christmas Day a month early this year because we’ll all be in different parts of the world on 25th December, and we value our annual family get together. I thought it was a good opportunity to remind you how easy it is to provide a delicious and nutritious lunch, especially for us…

*+-Nuts are a fascinating food, and for us with diabetes they tick so many of our healthy eating boxes – fibre, nutrients, good fats, satiety and more! Today we’ll take a closer look at the reasons behind all those good stories with a focus on our D-health (remembering to choose unsalted ones). It’s important to…

*+-As it’s Easter next weekend I thought a good topic to talk about might be eggs – not choccy eggs but chiccy eggs Reason being that many people choose to avoid meat over the Easter period for religious reasons and eggs are an eggcellent way to help you meet your protein another nutrient requirements. We’ll…

*+-So often I refer to the Australian Dietary Guidelines, and today’s blog is no exception as I thought that Grains would be a great topic to explore as they’re so helpful for our diabetes management, weight management, avoidance of cardiovascular disease and to help us maximise nutritional requirements! I’ll first look at why grains are…